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Automatic phytoplankton image smoothing through integrated dual image histogram specification and enhanced background removal method

Kamarul Baharin, Mohd Aiman Syahmi and Abdul Ghani, Ahmad Shahrizan and Mohammad Noor, Normawaty and Ismail, Hasnun Nita and Syamsul Amri, Syafiq Qhushairy (2022) Automatic phytoplankton image smoothing through integrated dual image histogram specification and enhanced background removal method. The Imaging Science Journal. pp. 1-27. ISSN 1368-2199 E-ISSN 1743-131X

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Abstract

Diatom is a dominant phytoplankton and commonly found in oceans or waterways. The captured phytoplankton microscopic images suffer from low contrast and surrounding debris. These images are not appropriated for identification. Integrated dual image contrast adaptive histogram specification with enhanced background removal (DIHS-BR) is proposed to address these issues by automatically removes the background of the phytoplankton image and improves the image quality while cropping phytoplankton cell. DIHS-BR will automatically remove the background and noises. DIHS-BR consists of two major steps, namely, contrast adaptive histogram specification and background removal by means of edge mask cropping. Results demonstrated that DIHS-BR filtered out the image background and left only the required phytoplankton cell image. Noises are minimized, while the contrast and colour of phytoplankton cells are improved. The average edge-based contrast measure (EBCM) of 83.065 demonstrates the best contrast improvement of the proposed methods compared with the other state-of-the-art methods

Item Type: Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Diatom; phytoplankton; image enhancement; edge masking; image smoothing; image brightening; dual- image specification; background removal
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): Kulliyyah of Science > Department of Marine Science
Kulliyyah of Science
Depositing User: Dr Normawaty Mohammad Noor
Date Deposited: 01 Dec 2022 16:40
Last Modified: 01 Dec 2022 16:40
URI: http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/101506

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